MongoDB Entity Framework Core Provider

The MongoDB EF Core Provider requires Entity Framework Core 8 on .NET 8 or later.

Getting Started

Setup a DbContext with your desired entities and configuration

internal class PlanetDbContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<Planet> Planets { get; init; }

    public static PlanetDbContext Create(IMongoDatabase database) =>
        new(new DbContextOptionsBuilder<PlanetDbContext>()
            .UseMongoDB(database.Client, database.DatabaseNamespace.DatabaseName)
            .Options);

    public PlanetDbContext(DbContextOptions options)
        : base(options)
    {
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
        modelBuilder.Entity<Planet>().ToCollection("planets");
    }
}

To get going with the DbContext:

var mongoConnectionString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("MONGODB_URI");
var mongoClient = new MongoClient(mongoConnectionString);
var db = PlanetDbContext.Create(mongoClient.GetDatabase("planets"));

Supported Features

Entity Framework Core and MongoDB have a wide variety of features. This provider supports a subset of the functionality available in both, specifically:

• Querying with Where, Find, First, Single, OrderBy, ThenBy, Skip, Take etc.
• Top-level aggregates of Any, Count, LongCount
• Mapping properties to BSON elements using [Column] or [BsonElement] attributes or HasElementName("name") method
• Mapping entities to collections using [Table("name")] attribute or ToCollection("name") method
• Single or composite keys of standard types including string, Guid and ObjectId
• Properties with typical CLR types (int, string, Guid, decimal), Mongo types (ObjectId, Decimal128)
• Properties containing arrays and lists of simple CLR types
• Owned entities (aka value types, sub-documents, embedded documents) both directly and within collections
• BsonIgnore, BsonId, BsonDateTimeOptions, BsonElement and BsonRequired support
• Value converters using HasConversion
• Query and update logging including MQL (sensitive mode only)
• Some mapping configuration options for DateTime

Limitations

A number of Entity Framework Core features are not currently supported but planned for future release. If you require use of these facilities in the mean-time consider using the existing MongoDB C# Driver's LINQ provider which supports them.

Planned for next release

• Select projections must only contain server-translatable expressions
• Sum, Average, Min, Max etc. are not supported at top level
• Transactions
• Type discriminators
• Additional mapping configuration options
• EnsureCreated & EnsureDeleted operations

Not supported but considering for future releases

• ExecuteUpdate & ExecuteDelete
• Properties of Dictionary type
• Binary/byte array properties
• Additional CLR types (DateOnly, TimeOnly etc).
• EF shadow properties
• GroupBy operations
• Relationships between entities
• Includes/joins
• Foreign keys and navigation traversal

Not supported & out-of-scope features

• Keyless entity types
• Schema migrations
• Database-first & model-first
• Alternate keys
• Document (table) splitting
• Temporal tables
• Spacial data
• Timeseries
• Atlas search

Documentation

• MongoDB
• EF Provider Guide
• EF Provider API Docs

Questions/Bug Reports

• Forums
• Jira

If you’ve identified a security vulnerability in a driver or any other MongoDB project, please report it according to the instructions here.

Contributing

Please see our guidelines for contributing to the driver.

Maintainers:

• Damien Guard damien.guard@mongodb.com
• Oleksandr Poliakov oleksandr.poliakov@mongodb.com
• Robert Stam robert@mongodb.com